Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.