Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.