The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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.

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.