Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.