An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.