To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.

The only thing constant in life is change