Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.