A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.