The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Tears are the silent language of grief.