"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively."

"Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one."

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."