This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.