The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.