If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.