It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.