Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.