Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.