In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.