Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.