Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

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