Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.