Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!