Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.