The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.