A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.