Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.