When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.