Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.