If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.