In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.