Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

Intelligent women always marry fools

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

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.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.