Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.

All happiness is a form of innocence.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

Translating is writing.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.