Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.