The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.