The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

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.

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.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

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

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