Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.