Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

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