Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.