As nations improve, so do their gods.

Those who never have time do least

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.