"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"

"How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?"

"If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world."

"The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's."

"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today."

"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties."

"Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery."

"Man is a hating rather than a loving animal."

"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."

"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."

"Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."