A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.