Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

Manners form the great charm of women.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.