Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.