All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.