The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.