Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.