"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"

"A woman should never be trusted with money."

"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."

"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."

"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."

"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands."

"We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous."

"To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."

"Now everyone must do after his kind, be he asp or angle."

"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."