The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.