"To say that 'men cannot live without women' is to confess that men are not self-sufficient, and that their well-being is dependent on something outside themselves."

"The soul of a man is a portion of God."

"The universe is change; life is opinion."

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul, and is not to be sought for from external things."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."