Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.