Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

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.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

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

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

I don't conquer, I submit.