Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.
Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.
In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.