Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.