The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.