Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.