The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.