We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.