The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.