it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.