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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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An army is a strange composite masterpiece, which strength results from an enormous sum total of utter weaknesses. Thus only can we explain a war waged by humanity against humanity in spite of humanity.
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.
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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.
