The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
The world is governed by love,--self-love.
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.
Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.
Silence never yet betrayed any one!
Women read each other at a single glance.
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.
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