Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.