The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.