"A woman should never be trusted with money."

"Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."

"One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other."

"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."

"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."

"I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance."

"Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant."

"Always look on the bright side of life."

"What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?"

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."

"The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war."

"The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle."