Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.