Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

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

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

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

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

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.