To be an adult is to be alone.

The biologist passes, the frog remains.

A married couples are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

I don’t judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

There are things that don’t deserve to be said briefly.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.

In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s.