A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.