God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

France lost a great novel last night.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.