The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.
He who leaves the game wins it.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally