Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.