Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.