To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.