The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Books are embalmed minds.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.