Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, …

Childish and altogether ludicrous is what you yourself are and all philosophers; and if a grown-up man like me spends fifteen minutes with fools of this kind, …

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or p…

Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but…