Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
