If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.