A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

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

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.