Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.