Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.