There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.