Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

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

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

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