How easy love makes fools of us.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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.
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.