"Life is a pendulum swinging between pain and boredom."

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"The existence of evil is a proof that God is not omnipotent, or not benevolent, or both."

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

"They are the sex which pays the debt of life, not by what it does, but by what it suffers. The pains of child-bearing, the care of the child, the constant dependence upon the man, and the short durati…"