Compassion is the basis of morality.

Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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