Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.