Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.