"The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle."

"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.)"

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m'etier (God will forgive me. It's his profession)"

"When books are burned in the end people will be burned too."

"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."

"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."

"Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so."

"With foxes we must play the fox."

"From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made."