I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.