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

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

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

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.