The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.