A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.