"The most dreadful thing that can happen to a man is to become a number."

"The more a person has developed his mind, the more he is capable of being depressed."

"Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret both. Laugh at the world’s follies, you will regret it; weep over them, you will also regret …"

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth— look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intende…"

"The greatest good to a human being is to be a human being."