Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.