So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.