The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.