And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.