Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.