It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
