A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
Reading brings us unknown friends
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.