A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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.