Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.