Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!