It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?