We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)