Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.