I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

We are always on the side of those who speak last.

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.