It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.