He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.