The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.