When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
Promptly improve your accidents.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
We should wash our dirty linen at home.