Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!