“Conviction is the conscience of the mind.”
“Success makes success, like money makes money.”
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
“How many fools does it take to make up a public?”
“Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.”
“Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.”
“Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.”
“No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.”
“A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.”
“Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.”
“The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”
“Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.”
“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.”
“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.”
“There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
“Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.”
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.”
“People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.”
“All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.”
“If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.”
“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”
“Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.”
“Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.”
“Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.”
“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.”
“We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.”
“Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.”
“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]”
“I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.”
“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.”