The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.
The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
I can speak French but I cannot understand it.