There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.