Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

Law is for everyone, justice is for few.

You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

You don't need really expensive clothes to look cute.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

In any profession, there are always ups and downs.