It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.