And if the great fear had not come upon me as it did and forced me to do my duty I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than...
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her...
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other it seems...
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting...
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures but only a small...
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more...
If it were not for the government we should have nothing to laugh at in...
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's...
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity...
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating...
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in...
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the...
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
