The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

The more you say, the less they remember.

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

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.