Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

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

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.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.