Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.