“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable ”
“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable ”
“Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. ”
“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence”
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself”
“During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk”
“Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect”
“Evil is whatever distracts. ”