We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.
Languages are the keys of science.
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.