Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

We are not always even what we are most.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.