I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?