In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.