Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.