Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!