It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.