Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.