Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Youth without faith is a day without sun.