This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.