Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.