“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense
“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness