No one can transcend their own individuality.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

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

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.