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.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.