There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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.