Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.