Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.