The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

All we are is in the soul.