Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.