"It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance."

"I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool."

"Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other."

"Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."

"Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas."

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!"

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children"

"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing."