The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Only good questions deserve good answers.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.