When all are of one mind, what is left to say worth hearing?
Save your best thoughts for your best friends.
Frivolity is the armor of good society, worn to protect it against the violence of passions and the ennui of enthusiasms.
Subservience to society is in man what “protective mimicry” is in insects,—an unconscious tendency to imitation for the purpose of self-preservation.
Youth looks to be received in society with greater sympathy than it finds; age will find more than it generally expects.