A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.