It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.