Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!