One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.