A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

Right attitudes produces right action

I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.

Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.