Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go puffing up and, later, of shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of banisters.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.