Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.