Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.