Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.