Great men always have dogs.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!