Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'