All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.