People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.