I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.