The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.