In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.