No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

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.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.