The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.