None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Dandyism is a species of genius.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.