Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.