Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.