“Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with our future.”

“I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.”

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”

“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.”

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”