Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.

Don't just count your days, make your days count.

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.