I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

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

Order is the key to all problems.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.