Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.