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.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.