Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.