The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

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.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.