The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.