History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.