There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?