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.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.