I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.