Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.