There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.