Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.