"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

"The sound of a kiss is not so loudas that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."

"Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."

"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."

"I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous."

"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone."