There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

...love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.