Man Is Almost Always As Wicked As

I May Be Wrong, But It Seems Rare In Our Age To Find A Widely Praised Person Whose Own Mouth Is Not The Source Of That Praise.

It's Interesting To Observe That Almost All Truly Worthy Men Have Simple Manners, And That Simple Manners Are Almost Always Taken As A Sign Of Little Worth

The Old Man, Especially If He Is In Society In The Privacy Of His Thoughts, Though He May Protest The Opposite, Never Stops Believing That, Through Some Singular Exception Of The Universal Rule, He Can In Some Unknown And Inexplicable Way Still Make An Impression On Women.

Nothing In The World Is So Rare As A Person One Can Always Put Up With.

There Are Some Centuries Which - Apart From Everything Else - In The Art And Other Disciplines Presume To Remake Everything Because They Know How To Make Nothing.