It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.