Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.