It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

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

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.