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

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.