If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.