To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

There are words which cut like steel.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.