The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
What the hell is an oboe?
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.