It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.