What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.