The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

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.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.