Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Nothing about me surprises me.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!