Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.