Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.