Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.