Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.