People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.