“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ”

“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.”

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

“Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.”

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.”

“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.”