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.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Another occupation might have been better.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.