Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan