Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.