A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!