One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.