When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.