Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.