Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.