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

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

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.