As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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