We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.