When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.