In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.