I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

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

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Our passions are ourselves.