"The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see."

"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."

"The world is a madhouse."

"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."

"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…"