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.

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

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.