To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere

A woman must decide between a man who women like, and then have no security, or a man who women don ‘ t like, and have no happiness.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.