Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

[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.

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

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

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

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

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.