The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.