"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."

"Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word."

"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?"

"Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."

"Wit is the only wall between us and the dark."

"It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands."

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m'etier (God will forgive me. It's his profession)"