To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.