A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.