Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
Our life is woven wind.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.