We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.