Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.