Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.