Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

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

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.