The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.