A person who can break wind is not dead.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.