To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast

Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.