"Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is a more infallible index to character than the face."

"Life is a constant process of dying."

"Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning and mental faculties scarcely before he is eight-and-twenty; woman when she is eighteen; but hers is reason of very narrow limitations."

"The general mistake is to suppose that we shall do something great in the future."

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."