Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.