A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

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

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.