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.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

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

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

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.