Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.