Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.