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.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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.

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