There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.
Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
Women read each other at a single glance.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.