It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.