You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.