Custom alone regulates morals.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.