Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.