To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Be my brother or I will kill you.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.