The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.