We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

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

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

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

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