Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.