One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.