Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

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

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

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