The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.