I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.