Silence is one great art of conversation.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.