A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.