Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.