Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.