Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

Thanks for giving me the information I wanted. I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Ah! this morning! You have lived since then!

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.