If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.