The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.