The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

Another occupation might have been better.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

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.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.