It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.