To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.