Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.