It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.