Success makes success, like money makes money.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

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

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

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.

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

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.