The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.