Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.