An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.