The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

God created women only to tame men.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.