Woman was God's second mistake.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.