It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

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.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.