People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.