Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.