The poor are the blacks of Europe.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

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

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.