What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

He who leaves the game wins it.