If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.