Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

True love rules especially through memory.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?