And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.