Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

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

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

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

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