Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

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.

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.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.