Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.