So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

The society of women is the element of good manners.