Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.