There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.