In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.