Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.