The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.