Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.