"Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil."

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver."

"The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses."

"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."

"Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization."

"I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."

"When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it."

"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."