We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.