The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

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

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.