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

There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.