A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.