What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.