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

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

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.

Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

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

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.