Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.
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.