If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

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

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.