What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.