Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

Truth is no road to fortune.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

I'm a promoter of masturbation. Don't sleep around...learn yourself first! Guys do it, but girls don't. They should.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.