“The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.”

“Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.”

“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”

“I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.”

“He who expects little is rarely disappointed.”

“The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated.”

“The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.”

“I was so disappointed at first [visiting the pyramids in Egypt, in her 20s], because they looked so small, but then when you approached them, they got so big. It's an amazing effect.”

“I believe that more women are disappointed in marriage than men; a woman gives the whole of her heart — the man only gives the remains of his, and very often there is only a little left. Besides his idol is rarely so much the work of his own hands as her's; at the end of the first year she may ask, where are the picturesque and ennobling qualities with which she invested her lover? in nine cases out of ten echo will indeed answer “where."”

“so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.”