Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.