Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

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

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.