Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred. Essays and Aphorisms

Malice is always lucky. The Post Office Girl 

The rational and the irrational appear such in a different way to different persons, just as the good and the bad, the profitable and the unprofitable. Discourses

There is nothing so wretched and foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness to expect evil before it arrives. Day's Collacon