Nothing good is to be expected of those who acknowledge their faults, repent, and then sin again. The truly great acknowledge their faults to no one, but they punish themselves accordingly.
Do not fear to make enemies,—unfortunate is he who has none; but try to give no cause for ridicule, and avoid the appearance of evil.
There is as much mud in the upper ranks of society as in the lower, but in the former it is gilded.
The most superb vengeance is the disdain of one at hand.
Laws are not always so cruel as are the usages of the world.
Historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular beliefs in the same manner that our newspapers express but the sentiments of their readers.
A lover is a herald who proclaims a woman’s merit, beauty, or wit. What does a husband proclaim?
A woman’s real physiognomy does not begin until she is thirty. Up to that age, the painter finds in her face but pink and white, and a repetition of the uniform and depthless smiles of love and youth.
Science consists in imitating nature.
Through a peculiar mental contraction, women see only the defects in a man of talent, and in a fool but his good qualities.