Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

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