We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.