One is absolutely sickened, not by 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.
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.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
