Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.