The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.