We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.