If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.