True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.