Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.