"Every genius is a great child."

"The only original philosophical thought possible is the one that starts from the fact of suffering."

"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary."

"Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning and mental faculties scarcely before he is eight-and-twenty; woman when she is eighteen; but hers is reason of very narrow limitations."

"It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that could give the name of fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race: for the whole beau…"