True love rules especially through memory.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.