Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

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 simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.