Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.