Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
Love is cruel as the grave.
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.