Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.