"Happiness is merely the interval between two sorrows."

"Life is a constant process of dying."

"A completely truthful woman who does not practice dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility."

"The best thing a man can do is to remain a bachelor."

"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…"