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.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.