"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."

"If you want to know what a man is really like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

"Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one o…"

"The world is hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it."

"Happiness is merely the interval between two sorrows."