There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.