It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

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.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.