The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.