A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

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

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.