Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

The contact of two epidermises.

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

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

Satire is the disease of art.