Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.