Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.