Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.