Arthur Schopenhauer — "No man is happy; he can only strive to be so."

"The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it."

"One need only look at a woman's shape to discover that she is not intended for either too much mental or too much physical work. Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our ea…"

"To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils."

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

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