Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Syllables govern the world.

Better never than late.

An index is a great leveller.

General consultant to mankind.

Property is organized robbery.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

My reputation grows with every failure.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.