There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

A woman always has her revenge ready.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.