In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.