History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.