Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
The more stitches, the less riches.
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.