A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.