To a valet no man is a hero.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.