To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

Languages are the keys of science.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.