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

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

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

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

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.