Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.