A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.