The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

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.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.