Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.