Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Laws die, books never.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.