Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.