Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives
The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but can't remember having received it.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen
A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - sometimes three
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws
