The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.