"The great advantage of being a fool is that one is always content with oneself."

"A woman's reputation is like a mirror, which a single breath can tarnish."

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off."

"I have a great love for paradox, and I believe it is the key to understanding the world."

"Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk."