Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. – Joseph Roux
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts. – Joseph Roux
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. – Joseph Roux
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. – Joseph Roux
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. – Joseph Roux
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. – Joseph Roux
