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.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.