I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.