Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.