Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

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

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

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

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.