To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.