Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.