Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

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

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

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

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.