Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.