Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.