"The desire for peace, the most common desire of all, is a sign of weakness in a society."

"Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too."

"The most common lie is that with which one lies to oneself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"I fear that old women will always be more skeptical than old men."

"The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer."