Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.