"The female is also more given to melancholy and more despondent, and more apt to be sad."

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

"The female is also more given to eating and drinking, and more gluttonous, and more inclined to drunkenness."

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."