It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

History is only gossip.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.