A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

To forget someone means to think of him.