The worst government is the most moral.

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.