It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
When a child is born the mother also is born again.
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.