You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.