To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.