A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.