Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

Man is the cruelest animal.