Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

War makes rattling good history.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

All romances end at marriage.