Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?