To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only
The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more
