No man can be merry unless he is serious.

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.