Necessity is often the spur to genius.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all.

Believe everything you hear said of the world nothing is too impossibly bad.

Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation.