A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.