Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.
Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.