We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.