“Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.”

“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”

“Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.”

“It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.”

“Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.”

“Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.”

“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”

“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”