It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

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

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

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

It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.