Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.