It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.
The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.