Resignation is a daily suicide.

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

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

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.