Ideas Devour The Ages As Men Are

Nothing Is So Discreet As A Young Face, For Nothing Is Less Mobile; It Has The Serenity, The Surface Smoothness, And The Freshnessof A Lake. There Is No Character In Women's Faces Before The Age Of Thirty.

Men Are Perfectly Willing To Abandon A Woman But They Refuse To Be Abandoned By Her.

The Greater A Man's Talents, The More Marked His Idiosyncracies. Yet In The Provinces Originality Is Considered Perilously Close To Lunacy.

Nothing Is A Greater Impediment To Being On Good Terms With Others Than Being Ill At Ease With Yourself.

Narrow Minds Can Develop As Well Through Persecution As Through Benevolence; They Can Assure Themselves Of Their Power By Tyrannizing Cruelly Or Beneficially Over Others.