A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
It has all been most interesting.
General notions are generally wrong.
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.