It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.