People who don't count won't count.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.