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Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Even boredom has its crises.
The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.