Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

He that commends me to mine own content<br> Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

You are only as old as the woman you feel.

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure –- that is all agnosticism means.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.