A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.