A delicate wit is a corruption which a nation takes a long time to acquire. It is only worn-out nations that possess it.

The people like neither the true nor the simple; they like novels and charlatans.

That which probably hears more stupidities than anything else in the world is a painting in a museum.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everyone knows it and everyone forgets it.

Savagely is necessary ever}' four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civilization.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.