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

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.

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

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