In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Women are more credulous than men.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.