There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Our true passions are selfish.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.