Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.