Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.

At work, or anywhere in life, people should be a team, working for the best of all, not protecting individual egos.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

It humbles me, but it doesn't humiliate me.

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.

Please your eye and plague your heart.