Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

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.

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

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

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.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.