In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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.