We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.