Success makes success, like money makes money.
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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.
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.