With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.