Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

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.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

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