Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

If you're not taking care of yourself, lipstick and foundation isn't really going to do anything for you.