Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.