It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.