If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom