When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

We are not always even what we are most.

n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

Many a truth is the result of an error.