Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.