Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

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

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.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.