There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.