Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.