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

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers

Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

El día peor empleado es aquél en que no se ha reído

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority.

Love is like an epidemic; the more one is afraid, the more vulnerable one is.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

In the current state of society, it seems to me that man is corrupted more by reason than by passion.