Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?