"She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by what she suffers—by the pains of child-bearing, care for the child, and by subjection to man, to whom she should be a patient and cheerful compani…"

"The less a man is burdened by his own will, the more he is capable of objective knowledge."

"Every man has a certain amount of original sin in him, and this is the cause of all his misery."

"The value of a man is determined by what he is, not by what he has."

"Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes."