Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.