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

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

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

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

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.