Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

The more the change, the more it is the same thing.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.