Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.