Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

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

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

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

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.