Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.