A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.