Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.