There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

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

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

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

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.