To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.