Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
Great men have always had dogs.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!