Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.