Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.