Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.