A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.