Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.