I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.