Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?