Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

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.

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

Great men always have dogs.

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!

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.