Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.