Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.