Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.