Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

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

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

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

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