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

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

The difference breeds hatred.

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

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.