Every girl has a right to be loved.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.