"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."

"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."

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

"With women, nature has made a blunder."

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."