There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.