There are those to whom one must advise madness.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Everything that is exact is short.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.