"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money."

"She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by what she suffers—by the pains of child-bearing, care for the child, and by subjection to man, to whom she should be a patient and cheerful compani…"

"The world is nothing but my representation."

"The greatest happiness is to be born, and the least to die."

"We often find that people are most insolent and arrogant where they have least reason to be so."