One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

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

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.