Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.