I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.