Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

Death pays all debts.