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

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.