Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.