All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.