Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.