A mother who is really a mother is never free. Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. Love is a game in which one always cheats. I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities |