It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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.