A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.