It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

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

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.