Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.