Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.