The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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 careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.