The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

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

They do not think, therefore they are not.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.