It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.