It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?