To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

The history of mankind is his character.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.