A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle