The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.