Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
Medicine: "Your money and your life!
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.