Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.