Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.