When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.
Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.