Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.