Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
He who leaves the game wins it.