Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.