Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.