Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

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

Satire is the disease of art.

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

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

Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.