As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.