I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.