You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.