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

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

One can’t relive one’s life. Forgiveness is not what’s difficult; one’s always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that’s obvious.

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you...

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Everything is for the best in this best of possible worlds.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

In the summertime, we do a lot of video work. With that, I can show them if their head is moving too far or if the ball position or alignment isn’t right.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him… a man can’t see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun’s harem – the most oriental thing imaginable.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

I don’t think there’s a problem at all with steroids in the NHL. I can say that.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.