A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

I see my trees repair their boughs.

Society has no bribe for me.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.