The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.