You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Love is three quarters curiosity.