All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.