I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.