Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.