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

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.