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.

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.

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.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

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

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

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.