“A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.”

“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”

“A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.”

“In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”

“My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.”

“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”