“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Minds differ still more than faces.

Men argue. Nature acts.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.