It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.