Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.