To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom