There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.