The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.