Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do