"What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism."

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."

"What is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy, in which various persons, disguised in various costumes and masks, walk forth and play their respective parts, until the manager waves them off…"

"To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical."