» No man was ever wise by chance.
» Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
» If you wished to be loved, love.
» One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
» Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
» Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life--in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
» Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.