When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise. The Lord himself was embarrassed. He gathered an assembly of clerics and doctors, and asked them whether they regarded the baptism as valid.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Suffering, how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.