Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.