Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.