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.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Economized love is never real love.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.