The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.