If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.