For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.