Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
