I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

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?

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.