One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.