Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.