Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Never repeat old grievances.

Better never than late.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.