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

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

Every girl has a right to be loved.