The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

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.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

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.