There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.