Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.