One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.