There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.