People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.