Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.